Nobel Prize

Interview with Tasuku Honjo on 6 December 2018, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you receive the news that you had been awarded the Nobel Prize? Tasuku Honjo: The first message I received from another foundation was by a telephone call. It was around 5 p.m. of October 1st. Actually people told…

Interview with Richard H. Thaler on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Did you ever think that you would get the call from Stockholm? Richard H. Thaler: You are not really allowed to think about it, but one can always hope. A friend of mine told me that he had won…

Interview with Donna Strickland on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you become interested in science? Donna Strickland: I have been asked that question about how I got interested in science quite a bit. I think it just is my education system. It’s hard to say, I mean, my…

Interview with Sir Gregory P. Winter on 6 December 2018 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. I’m Greg Winter. I’m the Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, one quarter share. When did you decide that you wanted to become a scientist? Sir Gregory P. Winter: I started to take an interest in chemistry because I think…

Interview with Esther Duflo on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How did you become interested in economics? Esther Duflo: I grew up in a suburb of Paris, in a family with three children. My father is a mathematician and my mother is a pediatrician. Nothing really remarkable about my childhood…

Interview with Arthur B. McDonald on 6 December 2015, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What’s your story? What brought you to science? Arthur B. McDonald: What brought me to science started back in high school when I had an interest in science, but really a more substantial interest in mathematics which was generated…

Interview with Peter Higgs on 6 December 2013 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you describe your Nobel Prize awarded work for young students? Peter Higgs: Imagine a snowfield, and that is an analogous to this background field throughout all the universe, this affects the way that people crossing it in different ways…

Interview with François Englert on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you describe your Nobel Prize awarded work for young students? François Englert: First I will tell them or remind them if they know a little bit that all the matter that we have around us is composed of atoms.…

Interview with 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine John O’Keefe, 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your awarded work in easy-to-understand terms. One of the fundamental things that humans and animals do, is find their way around the world. So, to do that they need to know…

Interview with William E. Moerner on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Can you explain your work in easy-to-understand terms. The work that I did to receive the Nobel Prize, involved detecting single molecules, individual molecules. What you want to think about, is that a single molecule is incredibly tiny, just…